Boolean Functions and Computation Models

This textbook presents a survey of research on boolean functions, circuits, parallel computation models, function algebras, and proof systems. Its main aim is to elucidate the structure of "fast" parallel computation. The complexity of parallel computation is emphasized through a variety o...

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Hauptverfasser: Clote, Peter (VerfasserIn), Kranakis, Evangelos (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2002
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2002
Schriftenreihe:Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series
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Zusammenfassung:This textbook presents a survey of research on boolean functions, circuits, parallel computation models, function algebras, and proof systems. Its main aim is to elucidate the structure of "fast" parallel computation. The complexity of parallel computation is emphasized through a variety of techniques ranging from finite combinatorics, probability theory, and finite group theory to finite model theory and proof theory. Nonuniform computation models are studied in the form of boolean circuits, uniform ones in a variety of forms. Steps in the investigation of non-deterministic polynomial time are surveyed as is the complexity of various proof systems. The book will benefit advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the field of complexity theory
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 602 p)
ISBN:9783662049433
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-04943-3